[PATCH] mtd: remove redundant assignment to pointer eb

[Miquel Raynal]

Hi Colin,

Colin King <colin.king at canonical.com> wrote on Fri, 11 Sep 2020
11:23:21 +0100:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> 
> Pointer eb is being assigned a value that is never read, the assignment
> is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c
> index 58eefa43af14..795dec4483c2 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c
> @@ -1053,7 +1053,6 @@ static int mtdswap_writesect(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *dev,
>  	if (ret < 0)
>  		return ret;
>  
> -	eb = d->eb_data + (newblock / d->pages_per_eblk);
>  	d->page_data[page] = newblock;
>  
>  	return 0;

Yes it looks unused but perhaps it helps to catch the logic here. This
is not a strong disagreement but I'd keep it this way. Let's see what
other maintainers think.

Thanks,
Miquèl